Re: The Bounty License

How would you like to see it work, Heather?


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-------- Original message --------From: heather vescent <heathervescent@gmail.com> Date: 10/17/18  3:24 PM  (GMT-08:00) To: melvincarvalho@gmail.com Cc: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, "W3C Credentials CG (Public List)" <public-credentials@w3.org> Subject: Re: The Bounty License 
While I applaud this concept, it is extremely problematic, specifically in putting all the risk onto the content creator. Maybe that is not too much of a risk for a developer building code, but it is significantly different for a film producer. 
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 3:19 PM Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:


On Wed, 17 Oct 2018 at 23:22, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:
Following up with an idea on "how can we fund things in this ecosystem".

The concept of bounties came up.



Here's a simple concept:



Release software, documentation, and specifications under a "Bounty

License".



The license states that the content is free for non-commercial use and

sets a bounty price to transition the license into a FOSS license.



For example, libvc is a Verifiable Credentials library in C++. It is

under a bounty license of $50K, if the bounty is paid, it moves to BSD

3-clause license. I can imagine three companies joining in and paying

that bounty because it reduces implementation risk for them, and they

get the software at a fraction of the cost of developing and maintaining

it themselves. The upside is that the developer is paid for their effort

vs. what happens today (leeching).



This is easiest for software... harder for things like documentation,

videos, etc. Information that once it's out, it's out, is more

difficult. So, for those items, previews are released and the full

version is only released once the bounty is paid.



Bounty prices would have to be above market rates... because the content

creator took on considerable risk in creating the content.



-- manu



PS: I know there are some things that may be better paid for up front,

and we can still do that in parallel to the suggestion above.

love it!
 


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